Sentences with phrase «about the environment while»

Students learned about the environment while building teamwork skills, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Our kayak tours progress at a leisurely pace with ample opportunities for everyone to observe, enjoy and ask questions about the environment while improving your kayaking skills.

Torrey Trust, owner of Surf eCo, wanted to do more to protect the oceans and the environment so she opened up her own surf school that teaches kids young and old about the environment while helping them catch a few waves.

Not exact matches

While venture capitalists, mutual funds and other private investors can only see upside in a zero - interest environment where growth is hard to find, public investors would be skeptical of a public Uber, Smith explains, just as they've asked tough questions about companies like Twitter and Yelp.

While the Greater Good post doesn't specifically discuss office environments (though it does talk positively about one conference sing - along), the implications are pretty clear.

Company co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield explains: «We're kind of in the best environment ever to raise money and while things could always get better and we'll wish we had waited another six months, having a couple hundred million bucks in the bank is a good hedge about what might happen in the future.»

But while Digit has saved about a quarter of a billion dollars for its users, CEO Ethan Bloch says the company has earned only «a tiny amount» in the current interest - rate environment.

Last I checked Fidelity showed 2.75 % for a 2 - year brokered CD from Morgan Stanley, and as you helpfully clarified when I posted about that, while these (as opposed to conventional CDs) are useful in that one can sell them on the open market before they mature, in the midst of a rising - rate environment this will likely incur a capital loss.

While not talking about war but rather our corporate environments...

In our view, the current market environment begs for investors to honestly assess their tolerance for loss, to align the duration of their investment portfolio with the horizon over which they expect to spend their assets; to consider their tolerance for missing returns should even this obscenely overvalued market continue to advance for a while; to understand historical precedents; to consider whether they care about such precedents; and to decide the extent to which they truly believe this time is different.

They are a murky regulatory environment, where states seem to be taking individual initiatives while the industry awaits rulings from the new administration's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; concerns about both reliability and cybersecurity in hackable robot cars; and the as yet unknown liability guidelines in the inevitable event of autonomous vehicle crashes and human injuries.

In this issue of Institutional Strategy Quarterly, we explore the details behind our own long - term return assumptions and risk management process while also focusing on ways in which investors can think about the relationships among risk, return, and portfolio construction in this lower - return environment.

While the U.S. economy has rebounded, the financial environment is still cloudy to more than 50 % of Americans who are still worried about having enough money in savings and feeling secure with their current finances.

While DNA does most of it, all fetuses start out female and the combined influence of DNA and the fetal environment turns about half pf them male during the pregnancy, and some only part of the way between the two.

While listening to Chris, I grew angrier and angrier about our troubled culture, the sexual chaos our parents» generation bequeathed us, the lack of support the Church provides, and the hostile environment the university maintains.

While Tomlin indeed gets it right with his point, «It's not about me», the environment in which he performs and the audience gets hyped up like a rock concert misses the true point of worshiping Jesus (see that «God — dance floor» lyric).

At its core, sustainability within the food industry is about creating products that provide maximum nutrient density for the consumer, while creating a minimal impact on the environment.

Banrock Station's Wine and Wetland Centre has won multiple tourism awards, offering the 90,000 annual visitors the opportunity to learn more about the wetland environment while visiting the cellar door and restaurant, or taking a self - guided tour of the 8 km network of walking trails.

While in residence, students learn in a structured environment about handling personal conflicts, academics, basic life skills, anxiety and other skills or issues.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

A truly child - friendly environment would allow women to nurture their children while simultaneously going about the business of being competent and productive adults.

I had a marriage that was entirely about my ex's career and as it went up, and then down, I was the one who kept our kids in a stable environment, good schools, emotionally and physically cared for while I also worked.

Make a visit to school and take pictures of the teachers and environment so your child can remember and talk about school while at home.

While much has been learned about the inherited genetics of intelligence (what is), these same scientific studies emphasize the importance of environment (what can be).

It provides a safe environment for your baby to relax in while you go about your daily chores in the kitchen and around the house.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

While some health educators or parents might worry that teaching kids about portion control and calorie counts could lead to eating that's too retrictive, I actually think it's a very good idea to arm kids with that knowledge to help them navigate the temptations of today's food environment.

Our Core Classes provide a safe environment for babies and tots to explore, and for families to discuss and learn about parenting and early childhood development all while building friendships to last a lifetime.

No blog about kids and food can ignore Halloween, a holiday that can be quite polarizing among readers: Some parents think unfettered gorging on Halloween candy is a sacrosanct tradition, while others view Halloween in the context of the larger food environment and want to limit their kids» sugar consumption.

This gives Cristie a chance to learn about the personal life and expectations of the Surrogate, while also ensuring she lives in a safe and healthy environment.

Infants and toddlers are introduced to the aquatic environment and encouraged to enjoy themselves while learning about the water.

While you may read about the development of a sleeping pattern for babies, you will also need to consider just what your baby is like and the type of environment you are in.

I think its better to let the kids watch 30 min of tv while I prepare a meal in peace then have a nice sit down down in a clean environment where we can enjoy about 30 minutes of focused family time!

If you work with children in a school or camp environment and want to learn more about having better classroom management while helping empower kids to be the best they can be, visit here.

First, there is «feeling in control», which means something different for every woman — for example, for one woman, controlling the environment is important, while another needs to not be in excruciating pain in order to feel in control, while a third might not particularly care about the question of being in control altogether as she feels that part of birth is letting go of control.

What I love most about camp is that we are able to help create a fun environment while they simultaneously change our lives with their strength and perseverance.

To help educate new parents across the country about germs, Ali has come up with several tips to creating a healthier home environment — while still letting baby's curiosity thrive.

While there isn't too much information on the site I think it is a great place to start with the younger kids in teaching them about the environment.

«Over the years I have tried to use images and ideas to cut through complacency and apathy while trying to raise consciousness about an array of social issues from discrimination and human rights, to health and the environment» notes Chaz Maviyane - Davies on his work.

BASC Northern Ireland Director Tommy Mayne said: «BASC welcomes the opportunity to submit evidence to the Environment Committee and while we welcome some aspects of the Marine Bill which will benefit marine life and biodiversity, we are greatly concerned about certain clauses within the draft Bill that pose a potential threat to wildfowling and other rural activities.

She walks the walk: even as agricultural science was one of her least favourite subjects while at school, she ended up covering this and reporting on the environment; this came about as a result of her reorienting herself and working hard to be taken seriously in the field.

«It's good business,» he said, while others talked about how one town's having fracking in the midst of others banning it, could ruin an environment for all.

Chandler said Corbett «created disruption and a somewhat intimidating environment» by raising concerns about absentee ballots loudly at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School polling site, while voting was still in progress.

While Turo has found a way to speak out, Gretchen Goldman of the Union of Concerned Scientists has concerns about the «chilling effect» that the current political environment may have on government scientists.

Talking about those kids for a while can lead to questions about child care and the work environment, which can then lead to questions about regulatory affairs as a career path.

The study found that in the 18th and 19th centuries, about four to 18 per cent of the variation between individuals in lifespan, family size and ages at first and last birth was influenced by genes, while the rest of the variation was driven by differences in various aspects of their environment.

However, while rangeomorphs were highly suited to their Ediacaran environment, conditions in the oceans continued to change and from about 541 million years ago the «Cambrian Explosion» began — a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

While policy - level discussions about the regulations of genome - edited organisms are slowly taking place around the world, according to Dr. Ishii, his study will serve as a basis for the conversation with regulatory agencies in the world as well as the Japanese Ministry of the Environment.

For example, the researchers found boys in both New Delhi and Shanghai talked about being encouraged to spend time outside of the home in unsupervised exploration of their environment, while girls said they were advised to stay home and do chores.